del.icio.us links for November 09, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Death on wheels: The suicide service that comes to your door – DailyMail.Co.Uk

   In Switzerland it is legal to assist a suicide, but only Dignitas will take clients from abroad. Some 753 foreigners visited its offices and ended their lives with an overdose after paying £3,000.

2. Keeping up with a wired clientele – Seattle’s Hotel 1000 really “geeks out” – SeattleTimes.nwsource.Com

   The $133 billion lodging industry’s cutting edge sees a business opportunity in traveling lawyers pining for high-speed Internet access, 20-somethings looking for a place to plug their iPods and vacationers preferring YouTube over the boob tube.

3. Teen killer posted YouTube warning – TheStar.com

   The posting on YouTube of a clip announcing a school shooting in Finland before it happened shows how self-shot videos have become the favoured means for modern killers wanting to get their message across.

4. Facebook’s New Ad Platform Illegal? – TechCrunch.Com

   Facebook’s Social Ad platform may be illegal in New York under a 100 year old privacy law that states that “any person whose name, portrait, picture, or voice is used within this state for advertising purposes.

8 more articles after the Jump

1. Wi-Fi Detector Shirt – ThinkGeek.Com

   Thanks to ThinkGeek you can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt. Glowing bars on the front of the shirt change as the surrounding wi-fi signal strength fluctuates.

2. Target pulls ‘Manhunt 2′ from shelves – GlobeandMail.Com

   It took hackers about 24 hours to figure out how to un-blur the imagery on the version of the game for PlayStation Portables, though only on PSPs that have been illegally modified. Officials with Rockstar Games did not immediately return messages

3. US theme parks boost Walt Disney – BBC.Co.Uk

   Walt Disney said its US theme parks benefited from the weak dollar as it kept Americans from travelling abroad. Chief executive Bob Iger said that a slowdown in US economic growth had yet to hit advertising and consumer demand.

4. £240,000 for Tony Blair’s not so great speech on greatness – TimesOnline.Co.Uk

   For Deng Qingbo, a commentator in the China Youth Daily, the answer was a resounding “no”. “To be honest, Mr Blair’s speech sounds so familiar. It’s just like the report of any Chinese county level official and contains no novelty, was it worth

5. EA Donates Original City-Building Game, SimCity, to ”One Laptop per Child” Initiative – GameInfoWire.Com

   Today Electronic Arts Inc. announced the company will donate the original SimCity to each computer in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative. Which should help develop decision-making skills while honing creativity.

6. CEH Confirms that iPhone Chemicals Violate California State Law – Wired.Com

   Greenpeace analysis found 5070 parts per million (ppm) of dibutyl phthalate (DBP) in the iPhone headset cable, the CEH’s subsequent found 6200 ppm of DBP in the headset cable of the phone and 6300 ppm DBP in the iPod headset cable.

7. MySpace Page for Alicia Keys “Hacked” – TechCrunch.Com

   Users who tried to play any of the multimedia embeds on the page were redirected to a Chinese website that prompted them to install an ActiveX component. Many users confirmed the installation compromising their computers’ security.

8. Digg/coRank Acquisition Rumors False, But Digg White Label Business Might Be Coming – TechCrunch.Com

   CEO Rogelio Bernal Andreo denies being in acquisition talks with Digg: coRank is still a baby and we still have a lot of work to do. We’re exploring collaborations and partnerships, but not a full sale. So my official answer is that no.